Cover image: A Russian soldier outside the nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia, Ukraine, May 1, 2022. ANDREY BORODULIN / AFP
- According Colin KahlUS Undersecretary of Defense for Political Affairs, between ” 70,000 and 80,000 soldiers » Russians have been killed or injured since February 24 and the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
- The site of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia, the largest in Europe, was the target of strikes this weekend ; the two belligerents accuse each other of being the author of the attacks. United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called “suicidal” any attack on nuclear power stations and called for the cessation of military operations around the Zaporizhia power station.
- L’International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had judged on Saturday “increasingly alarming” information from Zaporizhia, one of whose reactors had to be shut down due to a bombardment the day before.
- From the east to the south of Ukraine, military operations continued this weekend. Russian attacks have killed at least five civilians in the eastern region of Donetsk, said its governor, Pavlo Kyrylenko.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned Moscow against organizing “referendums” in the occupied territories in the south of his country with a view to their annexation. If the separatists persist on this path, “they will close off any possibility of negotiations with Ukraine and the free world, which they will certainly need at some point”did he declare.
- Four new boats loaded with grain left the Ukrainian ports of Odessa and Chornomorsk on the Black Sea on Sunday, with about 170,000 tons of goods. On Saturday, a freighter arrived at the port of Chornomorsk to load grain there, for the first time since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
- Amnesty International apologized on Sunday for the “distress and anger” caused by his report accusing the Ukrainian authorities of endangering the civilian population. The report, released on Thursday, angered the Ukrainian president and led to the resignation of the director of the non-governmental organization in Ukraine.
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